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🛠️ Resource kit for environmental projects in Africa! The Africa Mining Watch Knowledge Toolkit helps identify and investigate harm caused by mining. Use it to explore illegal mining hotspots, understand their environmental and social impacts, and support investigations, research, advocacy, and community action. 🔎 Explore the toolkit: cfa.fyi/x60WUWy @EarthGenome + @pulitzercenter
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💡 According to the @_AfricanUnion's 2026 report, only 18 African countries have set the minimum age of marriage at 18 or above, without exceptions. This year's International Day of the Girl Child theme—“End child marriage and invest in girls’ rights”—serves as an urgent reminder that even today, millions of girls are still denied their rights, education, and the opportunity to shape their own futures. To unpack the issues behind these numbers, fellows from WanaData’s EPD DDI fellowship are producing data-driven stories that explore the challenges facing women and girls in their communities. ♀ Learn more here: cfa.fyi/RgzW4Z7
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🎓 Are you or your organisation a key player in the fact-checking ecosystem? This course is for you. The ecosystem is evolving, and the players need to be proactive rather than reactive. Learn how to develop an approach to continuity that combines risk awareness, planning, and day-to-day strategies to keep your organisation running through disruptions. 🔗 Enrol today: cfa.fyi/zckqXTb
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🚨 What if a trusted news brand appeared to confirm something it never reported? Our investigation, False Witness, examines how fake attributions, old footage, and repeated claims can make misinformation look credible in Senegal and Côte d’Ivoire. 👉🏾 Read more: cfa.fyi/4k82KxE
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🎓 Join us at Code for Africa as an Instructional Designer! Are you passionate about MOOCs, instructional design, and leveraging technology to create impactful learning experiences? Code for Africa (CfA) is hiring a mid-level instructional designer to develop interactive e-learning content for academy.AFRICA. 📅 Apply by 30 October 2026: cfa.fyi/0w6wdYv
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Relayée par des militants pro-AES, une rumeur recyclée a connu une forte propagation sur les réseaux sociaux en juin 2026 générant des milliers d'interactions sur TikTok et Facebook Cette enquête met en lumière une forme subtile de désinformation Lien ici: cfa.fyi/wzA7I26
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‼️ Online threats are evolving. So is the support available to fight them. From trolling and doxxing to hacking, spyware, and disinformation, TrustLab Digital Helplines provide free and confidential support for CSOs and CBOs: 📌 Report and document online abuse
 📌 Respond to cyberattacks and security incidents
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 📌 Strengthen digital safety and resilience Need help? Get support today: cfa.fyi/gFsIhqt Detect. Defend. Disrupt. #TrustLabKE
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🔐 Security and privacy must be built into digital tools by design ⏮️ At the Forum on Internet Freedom in Africa (FIFAfrica) 2026 in Mauritius, Code for Africa’s security evangelist, Samaila Atsen Bako, spoke in depth about why data privacy, strong account security, and responsible data use must be priorities, not optional features. Here’s one key insight from the session 👇 ⚡ Powered by the digital democracy initiative
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Au nord de la Côte d'Ivoire, des vidéos et des enregistrements audio alarmistes mettant en garde contre des attaques se propagent dans les groupes WhatsApp. Les mêmes contenus sont réutilisés d'un village à l'autre, seul le nom du lieu change afin de semer la peur. En savoir plus sur ADDO : cfa.fyi/F1gxMiI
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Help shape how the Plus Alliance uses AI @Code4Africa's TechLab is hiring a full-time AI Solutions Architect to be the first dedicated hire for a new AI solutions hub within the AI Sandbox. You'll build and maintain AI-enabled tools and workflows, starting with Business Development and expanding to teams across the alliance. Reporting to the CTO, you'll help set the standards others build on, supported by our in-house data and AI teams. 📅 Applications close on 23 October: cfa.fyi/gu2wmOW
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🤳🏾 Social Media Viral Storytelling Course Mastering viral storytelling is a critical skill for content creators, brands, journalists, marketers, and anyone looking to amplify their message in a crowded digital space.  With no prior experience, you can learn to maximise your social media presence with expert guidance. 👉🏾 Enrol today: cfa.fyi/Pl1NKHT
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⚖️ Can political loyalty become a test of belonging? 🇰🇪 In Kenya, rhetoric around support for President William Ruto has sparked fresh online debate about ethnicity, exclusion, and who belongs in the Rift Valley. Our latest investigation examines how political remarks and misleading captions can deepen ethnic tensions online. 👉🏾 Read the full investigation: cfa.fyi/CFEQTQ8
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📢 We're #hiring | Are you passionate about MOOCs, instructional design, and leveraging technology to create impactful learning experiences? Code for Africa (CfA) is hiring a mid-level instructional designer to develop interactive e-learning content for academy.AFRICA. 📅 Apply by 30 October: cfa.fyi/0w6wdYv
🎓 We’re hiring! Join Code for Africa as an Instructional Designer and help journalists and citizens across Africa build digital skills through engaging, interactive courses on academy.AFRICA. 🔗 Apply by 30 October: cfa.fyi/0w6wdYv
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Le 22 mai 2026, le président Faye a limogé le Premier ministre Ousmane Sonko et dissous le gouvernement après des mois de tensions liées à l’orientation économique et aux négociations avec le FMI. Dès le 23 mai, des publications ont commencé à dépeindre Faye comme une « marionnette de la France ». Qui était à l’origine de la diffusion de ce discours, et comment s’est-il propagé au-delà des frontières du Sénégal ? 👉🏾 En savoir plus sur ADDO : cfa.fyi/p8MMbvQ
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Intake is open; enrol today! 🍀 Learn how to investigate climate disinformation, counter false claims, and educate your audience! Register here👉🏾 : plus.fyi/gJMyE6y
🌍 New course: Investigating Climate Disinformation! Explore how false climate narratives spread in East Africa and build skills to identify and analyse manipulated climate information across platforms, including social media and private messaging channels where false claims thrive unchecked. 🔗 Enrol today: plus.fyi/gJMyE6y
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🤳🏾 Across seven African countries, 763 digital-native news organisations collectively report 366 million social-media followers. That figure is not a count of unique people, but it shows their potential reach. The median reported staff size is only 11. 🔎 Read: cfa.fyi/CFEQTQ8
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⁉️ How are identity-based and politically polarising narratives shaping Kenya’s civic and political discourse? On 8 October, representatives from 22 organisations joined our national briefing to discuss our latest report. As Kenya approaches the 2027 General Elections, these questions are especially relevant to efforts to support informed, inclusive public debate. 👉🏾 Download our reports: cfa.fyi/WJb12LJ #TrustlabKE
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Work within CfA's AI Sandbox, a shared, secure AI infrastructure supporting public-interest work by newsrooms, watchdogs, and civil society organisations. 📅 Applications close on 23 October: cfa.fyi/gu2wmOW
🧳 Vacancy | Help shape how Plus Alliance uses AI @Code4Africa's TechLab is hiring a full-time AI Solutions Architect to be the first dedicated hire for a new AI solutions hub within the AI Sandbox. You'll build and maintain AI-enabled tools and workflows, starting with Business Development and expanding to teams across the alliance. Reporting to the CTO, you'll help set the standards others build on, with support from our in-house data and AI teams. 📅 Applications close on 23 October: cfa.fyi/gu2wmOW
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